Homemade Ravioli

Homemade Ravioli

After watching some TV series called "Simply Italian" I was obsessed with making homemade pasta. This is one of my many tries of making the famous Ravioli.

What You need:

(serving 4 people)

Pasta:

400g flour

4 eggs

Pinch of salt

 

 Filling:

Ricotta cheese

Spinach

1 egg

Salt

Pepper

Start making.

First make the pasta dough. Mix the flour with eggs and a pinch of salt. Knead it well and then leave it covered for about 20min. When it's done start rolling the dough. If You have the pasta making machine it's even better but I do it the old-fashion way - with a rolling pin. Even though after rolling the dough with my hands I can not move them the next day, it feels pretty good that You make Everything yourself. So your pasta dough should be as thin as possible. 

Now lets make the filling. It's as easy as it can get. Just chop the spinach, mix them with ricotta cheese, one egg and some salt and pepper.

I make my ravioli very simple. Cut evenly square pieces of dough. Put o tea spoon of filling in the middle and cover with another square piece of dough. Push the air out from where the filling is by tapping the around it while You close the filling completely. Then I like to use my rolling pin to make sure the edges are sealed properly and no water will get in. Just one roll outside the filling on each edge and it is done.

Boil in salted water for about 4-5min. It depends on Your ravioli size and thickness for how long You need to boil them.

Sprinkle with some Parmesan cheese and if You like have them with Your sauce of choice.

Enjoy xxx

Cannelloni

 Cannelloni

One of the best cuisines, in my opinion, is Italian. Perfectly matching tastes and seasoned flavors.

This time I'll share the all time Italian favorite - Cannelloni.

You will need:

16 Cannelloni pasta rolls

250g Ricotta cheese

Spinach

Garlic
Onion

Tomatoes (canned)
Mozzarella

Salt

Pepper

Set your oven for 180 C degrees.

First of all I cook the spinach together with crushed garlic and a little bit of salt and pepper. Don't worry if there's a lot of spinach - it will all cook down eventually. Try to not overcook them because the spinach will become dark and will loose all its color.
Then after about 5 min. take out all the spinach and let it cool while we make tomato sauce in the same pan that the spinach was cooking.
Chop onion and cook for about 2 min. until they get nice yellow color. Then take two canes of tomatoes, pour them into the pan and heat up with some salt and pepper.
The spinach should be not that hot anymore so we take a handful and squeeze all the juices out of them, but do not throw out anything. Then mix ricotta cheese into the spinach and all its juices.

You should get something like this

Then stuff the cannelloni pasta rolls with the ricotta filling. I use a plastic bag with a 1-2cm hole cut in the corner. Then lay your cannelloni in a baking pan with the tomato sauce (my pan that I used for cooking spinach and then tomatoes is also fit for cooking in the oven). And lay them over with mozzarella.

Try to fit all of the cannelloni in one pan

Cook for about 40min.

Enjoy xxx